Shanique Speight

Representative · New Jersey

Party

Democratic

State

New Jersey

Chamber

Representative

District

HD-029

Years active

2019–2026

Bills sponsored

27 bills

Bills sponsored

• NJ-A1051-2026 pending · primary sponsor
  Requires BPU to develop program to promote certain energy businesses in State.
• NJ-A1678-2026 pending · primary sponsor
  Establishes Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as principal department in Executive Branch and specifies functions, powers, and duties of department.
• NJ-A2218-2026 failed · primary sponsor
  Secures protections for patients and providers accessing and providing reproductive health care services; establishes right of residents to reproductive health care activity that is restricted in other states.
• NJ-A4284-2026 pending · primary sponsor
  Requires DOC to assign transgender inmate to State correctional facility based on inmate's gender identity and use inmate's preferred gender pronoun.
• NJ-A4310-2026 pending · primary sponsor
  Clarifies staff training requirements at long-term care facilities regarding care of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, and intersex seniors and seniors living with HIV.
• NJ-AJR64-2026 pending · co-sponsor
  Designates November of each year as "Transgender Awareness Month."
• NJ-S2260-2026 enacted · primary sponsor
  Secures protections for patients and providers accessing and providing reproductive health care services; establishes right of residents to reproductive health care activity that is restricted in other states.
• NJ-A3781-2025 pending · primary sponsor
  Requires BPU to develop program to promote certain energy businesses in State.
• NJ-A4434-2025 vetoed · primary sponsor
  Requires DHS and DOH to study disordered eating; establishes "Disordered Eating Prevention Research Grant Pilot Program."
• NJ-A1710-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Establishes certain protections for persons, providing, receiving, and allowing children to receive gender-affirming health care.
• NJ-A1975-2024 failed · primary sponsor
  Requires DOC to assign transgender inmate to State correctional facility based on inmate's gender identity and use inmate's preferred gender pronoun.
• NJ-A2280-2024 enacted · co-sponsor
  Codifies prohibition of discriminatory practices in real estate appraisals and requires real estate appraisers to complete anti-bias training.
• NJ-A3446-2024 enacted · co-sponsor
  "Freedom to Read Act"; establishes requirements for library material in public school libraries and public libraries; protects school library staff members and librarians.
• NJ-A3567-2024 failed · primary sponsor
  Requires each public institution of higher education to convene menstrual equity task force.
• NJ-A4169-2024 failed · primary sponsor
  Establishes task force to study and make recommendations concerning health care service needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer or questioning individuals, and persons with intersex conditions in t…
• NJ-A4656-2024 failed · primary sponsor
  Secures protections for patients and providers accessing and providing legally protected health care activities; establishes right of residents to legally protected health care services, which are restricted in other st…
• NJ-A856-2024 failed · primary sponsor
  Establishes Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as principal department in Executive Branch and specifies functions, powers, and duties of department.
• NJ-AJR113-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Designates November of each year as "Transgender Awareness Month."
• NJ-AR138-2024 enacted · primary sponsor
  Designates June 2024 as LGBTQIA+ Pride Month in New Jersey.
• NJ-A5516-2023 failed · co-sponsor
  Requires certain health care professionals to undergo bias training.
• NJ-A3209-2022 failed · primary sponsor
  Requires DOC to assign transgender inmate to State correctional facility based on inmate's gender identity and use inmate's preferred gender pronoun.
• NJ-A4648-2022 failed · co-sponsor
  Codifies prohibition of discriminatory practices in real estate appraisals and requires real estate appraisers to complete anti-bias training.
• NJ-A5768-2021 failed · primary sponsor
  Requires DOC to assign transgender inmate to State correctional facility based on inmate's gender identity and use inmate's preferred gender pronoun.
• NJ-A1906-2020 enacted · co-sponsor
  Includes false incrimination and filing false police report as form of bias intimidation; establishes crime of false 9-1-1 call with purpose to intimidate or harass based on race or other protected class.
• NJ-A5239-2019 failed · primary sponsor
  Expands provisions of Law Against Discrimination to rental of certain non-publicly assisted housing accommodations.
• NJ-A5319-2019 failed · primary sponsor
  Clarifies that discrimination based on hair style is violation of "Law Against Discrimination."
• NJ-S3538-2019 failed · primary sponsor
  Expands provisions of Law Against Discrimination to rental of certain non-publicly assisted housing accommodations.